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Devin Brown
Jan 16, 2021
Use the breaker app to hear the first 300+/- episodes...then continue here...much better app...but great, short content episodes with lots of inspiring content and advice.
Mikhail
Aug 21, 2020
Short useful focused episodes on wide range of software engineering career/work topics.
Jonathan Arnold
Jan 18, 2019
concise and informative
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Practical Application of Information Theory
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Revisiting Core Working Principles - Hyperfixation on Measurements and Communication Degradation
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Mar 22, 2024 |
Revisiting Core Working Principles - Clarity as a Precursor to Focus and Strategy for Possibilities
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Two Principle Categories To Judge Productivity Advice
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Mar 16, 2024 |
Cost of Delay Curves and Classes of Service
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Mar 14, 2024 |
Taking Personal Accountability for Systematic Failures
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Mar 08, 2024 |
Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part Two
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part One
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Mar 01, 2024 |
Treat Your Time as A Product You Own
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Von Restorff Isolation Effect and a Backfiring of Process
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Feb 25, 2024 |
Perform a Career Premortem
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Feb 22, 2024 |
Delegation, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency
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Feb 16, 2024 |
Apply Little's Law To What You Can Control
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Feb 03, 2024 |
Finding Leverage by Escaping Functional Fixedness
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Jan 26, 2024 |
Is it Actually Important to Question Assumptions?
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Jan 16, 2024 |
9 Years - Persistence by Reducing Expectation
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Jan 05, 2024 |
Good Plans, Bad Plans, and Road Trips
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Dec 15, 2023 |
Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects
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Dec 09, 2023 |
Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups
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Dec 01, 2023 |
The Dark Side of Optimism Bias
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Nov 27, 2023 |
Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap
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Nov 09, 2023 |
Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions
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Nov 03, 2023 |
Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping
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Oct 26, 2023 |
What is the Real Question? How To Be An Exceptional Listener
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Oct 21, 2023 |
Backlog Psychology - Fix Your Broken Expectations
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Oct 12, 2023 |
Backlog Psychology - Practice Requires Rhythmic Predictability
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Oct 03, 2023 |
Backlog Psychology - Hyperbolic Discounting, Tech Debt, and Hacking Your Habits
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Sep 21, 2023 |
Backlog Psychology - The Ziegarnik Effect - Why Limiting Work In Progress Protects Your Cognitive Load
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Sep 17, 2023 |
Two Tips for Better Retros - Add Specificity, Respect Uncertainty
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Sep 05, 2023 |
One Big Step Versus A Small Random Step
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Aug 27, 2023 |
Interrogate Your Decision Making Rules
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Aug 20, 2023 |
Schedule Carving
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Aug 12, 2023 |
Long Term Scoreboard for Short Term Games
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Aug 04, 2023 |
Slow Down and Start With One Goal
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Jul 22, 2023 |
Using the Accountability Triangle When Diagnosing A Failure
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Jul 13, 2023 |
Career Growth Starts With Improving Your Clarity
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Jul 03, 2023 |
Tech Lag Over Tech Debt
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Jun 26, 2023 |
Good Negotiation is About Collaborative Problem Solving
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Jun 12, 2023 |
Tools To Deal With Layoff Anxiety
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Jun 03, 2023 |
System Design - Limiting the Responsibilities Of A Given Actor
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May 20, 2023 |
Focus on Process Orientation for Goal Setting
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May 12, 2023 |
How to Give Better Feedback - My Single Biggest Piece of Advice to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Feedback
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May 05, 2023 |
Planning is About Creating Clarity, Not Certainty
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Apr 28, 2023 |
Process is Primarily for Managing Critical Moments
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Apr 20, 2023 |
Taking Advantage of Hedonic Adaptation
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Weber's Law and Contextual Framing
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Apr 03, 2023 |
What Defines a Senior Developer? - You Won't Use All of Your Knowledge
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Mar 31, 2023 |
The Pitfall of Control and Antidote of Trust
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Mar 20, 2023 |
Working Balance - Confronting Reality with Optimism
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Mar 17, 2023 |
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Choosing the Right Granularity Level
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Mar 09, 2023 |
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Difficult Does Not Equate To Valuable
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Mar 04, 2023 |
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Systematically Communicating Value
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Feb 27, 2023 |
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Dynamic vs Static Understanding of Situations
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Feb 24, 2023 |
Long Game, Short Game
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Feb 22, 2023 |
The Rate of Change for Change Itself
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Feb 15, 2023 |
Protecting Flow State - Setting Your Session Feedback And Goal
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Feb 13, 2023 |
Protecting Flow State - Plan Now, Pause Later
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Feb 10, 2023 |
Golden Advice - Always Leave Margin For Extra
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Feb 06, 2023 |
Your Purpose is A Projection of Your Complex Identity
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Feb 02, 2023 |
Demystifying Purpose by Focusing On Your Purpose For Today
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Jan 31, 2023 |
Reframing Deficiencies as Strengths
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Jan 28, 2023 |
Management Model of Ability and Will Applied to Self
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Jan 23, 2023 |
Beginner Confidence
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Jan 19, 2023 |
Comparing Cost Curves and Second Order Thinking
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Jan 17, 2023 |
Spectrum of Buy-In For Behavior Change
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Jan 11, 2023 |
Your Learning Investment Portfolio
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Jan 09, 2023 |
Celebrating 8 Years - Plus, What it Feels Like to Be Wrong
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Jan 05, 2023 |
Using Strategy, Tactics, and Operations to Achieve Intentions
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Jan 03, 2023 |
Resolve To Make Important Asks In The New Year
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Dec 23, 2022 |
Complexity As A Depreciating Asset
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Dec 21, 2022 |
Your Biggest Opportunity is In Your Daily Influence
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Dec 15, 2022 |
Get Acquainted With What Holds You Back
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Dec 12, 2022 |
How Ordering Your Events in A Day Can Matter
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Dec 09, 2022 |
Don't Fear AI Taking the Coding Jobs (Fixed Audio)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Don't Fear AI Taking the Coding Jobs
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Dec 05, 2022 |
Focus On Activities With Asymmetrical Upside
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Nov 30, 2022 |
Misjudging Others Attention On Us
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Nov 28, 2022 |
An Outsider Exercise in Gratitude
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Nov 24, 2022 |
You Know The Right Decision, Now Reduce The Friction
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Nov 21, 2022 |
Using Observational Techniques to Find Your Personal Values
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Nov 16, 2022 |
Avoid Defining Success Outside Your Locus of Control
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Nov 14, 2022 |
The Toxic Laziness of Overwork Culture
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Nov 10, 2022 |
Start With Precise Communication
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Nov 07, 2022 |
The Error of Discounting the Unexpected
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Nov 02, 2022 |
Looking at What Wasn't Done
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Oct 31, 2022 |
Success is Born From Luck and Action
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Oct 26, 2022 |
Build Environments That Produce Habits
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Oct 24, 2022 |
Design Your Low Stakes Environment As A Mirror of Your High Stakes Environment
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Oct 20, 2022 |
Better Goals - Deriving Values from Personal Investment and Risk Tolerance
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Better Goals - Finding Cohesion Between Your Long and Short Term Goals
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Oct 12, 2022 |
Better Goals - Two Guidelines for Better Outcomes
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Oct 10, 2022 |
5 Powerful Questions To Design Your Time More Effectively
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Oct 05, 2022 |
Short Term Tactics, Long Term Principles
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Revolutionize Your Most Important Meetings with Powerful Questions
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Sep 28, 2022 |
Diffuse and Focused Thinking
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Sep 26, 2022 |
Why It's Hard to Do Nothing
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Sep 21, 2022 |
Demystifying Decision-Making - Success is Not Just About Making Good Decisions
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Sep 19, 2022 |
What You Have In Common With the Smartest Person In the World
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Sep 15, 2022 |
A Way Out of Overwhelm
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Sep 12, 2022 |
Understand Position and Interest To Make Better Collaborative Decisions
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Sep 09, 2022 |
Future Thinking Is Not Planning For A Single Course of Events
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Sep 05, 2022 |
Balancing Decision Frames
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Aug 31, 2022 |
Copy of How Feedback Loops Shape Our World (Fixed Audio)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
Reframing Every Decision As A Tradeoff
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Aug 29, 2022 |
Judging Quality of Decisions Instead of Outcomes in Performance Reviews
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Aug 27, 2022 |
How Feedback Loops Shape Our World
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Aug 22, 2022 |
Solve Specific Problems by Composing General Solutions
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Aug 19, 2022 |
Common Excuses for Not Setting Goals
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Aug 15, 2022 |
Better Process to Match Intentions to Actions
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Aug 12, 2022 |
Change Through the Lens of Adjustment and Maintenance
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Aug 10, 2022 |
Built to Change
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Aug 06, 2022 |
Deconstructing Status Meetings
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Aug 03, 2022 |
Lower Cognitive Load - Pick Your Tools, Then Do Your Work
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Jul 27, 2022 |
Lower Cognitive Load - Primary Activities, Modes, and Cues
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Jul 25, 2022 |
Lower Cognitive Load - Limit Everything In Progress
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Jul 22, 2022 |
Lower Cognitive Load - Principle of Least Surprise
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Jul 20, 2022 |
Applying Systems Thinking for Better Thoughts
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Jul 13, 2022 |
Outside View or Anecdote? The Right Answer is Both
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Jul 11, 2022 |
Protect Transparency On Your Team
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Jul 08, 2022 |
Meeting Red Flags - Problems In Your Meetings That Signal Issues In Your Culture
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Jul 07, 2022 |
Better Meetings: Who Is the Audience?
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Better Meetings - What Kind of Meeting, What Kind of Goal?
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Jun 27, 2022 |
Your Career Growth Doesn't Just Depend On Your Competency
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Two Questions Focused On Unearthing Hidden Information In Yourself
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Jun 21, 2022 |
Asking a Taboo Question
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Jun 15, 2022 |
Reframe Play as a Principle
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Jun 13, 2022 |
Interrogating Beliefs and Treasuring Those Who Disagree With You
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Jun 08, 2022 |
Two Forks in the Road On the Path Towards Optimization and Productivity
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Jun 06, 2022 |
Techniques for People Struggling to Define Their Values
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Jun 01, 2022 |
Using Core Tools and Activities for Grounded Productivity
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May 31, 2022 |
Productivity, But Only On Paper
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May 25, 2022 |
The Only Productivity Discussion Worth Having
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May 23, 2022 |
Make Room to Expect the Exceptions
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May 20, 2022 |
You Need Better Inputs to improve Your Options
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May 18, 2022 |
Tradeoffs Of Control Optimized To Serve Your Goals
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May 11, 2022 |
Scheduling Time To Go The Extra Mile
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May 09, 2022 |
Premortems for Personal Goals
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May 04, 2022 |
Compare, Carefully
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May 02, 2022 |
Busting False Coupling and Finding Positive Negotiation Positions
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Apr 27, 2022 |
Making Space for Intuition in Decision-making
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Apr 25, 2022 |
Blueprint for Better Intermediate Decisionmaking
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Apr 20, 2022 |
Finding Perspective On Purpose - Make it Visible, Make it Clear
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Apr 18, 2022 |
The Principle of Isolation
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Apr 14, 2022 |
Better Report, Better Manager - Reiterate and Reflect for Better Communication
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Apr 11, 2022 |
Ambiguous Target Decisions and Noise
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Apr 06, 2022 |
Better Report, Better Manager - The Assumption of Motivation
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Apr 04, 2022 |
The Big Picture Pyramid
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Better Report, Better Manager - Two Questions to Find Guidance If You Don't Have A Manager
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Mar 28, 2022 |
Swizec Teller and the Senior Engineering Mindset, Part Two
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Mar 23, 2022 |
Swizec Teller and the Senior Engineering Mindset, Part One
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Better Report, Better Manager - One-On-One Frameworks: Focus and Fears
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Mar 18, 2022 |
Better Report, Better Manager - Investing in a Healthier Manager-to-Report Relationship
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Mar 14, 2022 |
Better Report, Better Manager Series: Calibration Conversation - 3 Questions to Ask Your Manager ASAP
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Mar 11, 2022 |
No More Status Meetings - A Forcing Function For Better Team Information Flow
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Mar 07, 2022 |
Two Principles To Improve Your Software Design Decisions
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Clearly Define What Your Toolset Can't Do
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Feb 28, 2022 |
When Sense-making and Statistics Collide
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Feb 24, 2022 |
Opportunities of Convergence and the Cost of Divergence
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Viewing Teams Through the Lens of Trust
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Feb 17, 2022 |
3 Habits For Your First 30 Days As A New Engineer On A Team (Corrected Audio)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
Your Media, Your Message
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Two Shifts to Change Our Working Mindset from Static to Dynamic
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Feb 08, 2022 |
Taking Advantage of Uniquely Human Capabilities
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Feb 03, 2022 |
Seek Context to Offset Prediction Errors
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Feb 01, 2022 |
Excessive Cohesion - When We Fill In Gaps to Make Things Make Sense
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Jan 27, 2022 |
Some of My Productivity Mechanisms
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Jan 24, 2022 |
Assimilating Advice - Dealing with Information Overload
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Jan 20, 2022 |
Help, I'm Blocked! Four Common Root Causes for Developers Getting Blocked
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Jan 18, 2022 |
Julian Gutman, CPO at Patreon, Part Two
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Jan 12, 2022 |
Julian Gutman, CPO at Patreon, Part One
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Jan 10, 2022 |
Purpose Oriented Resolutions, Part Two, and 7 Years of Developer Tea!
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Jan 05, 2022 |
Developing Purpose Oriented Resolutions
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Jan 03, 2022 |
Your Only Challenge Is To Focus
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Dec 30, 2021 |
Taking Back Ownership Over Your Priorities
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Dec 28, 2021 |
3 Cognitive Pitfalls of Mental Models
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Dec 23, 2021 |
Using Proactive Decision Tools To Reduce Reactive Decision Error
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Dec 20, 2021 |
Two Perspective-Sharpening Tools For Your New Year's Resolution Making
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Dec 17, 2021 |
Two Tools for Improving Your Closest Relationships
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Dec 15, 2021 |
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part One (Fixed Audio)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Input Quadrant - A Tool for Better Retrospectives
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Dec 13, 2021 |
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part Two
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Dec 08, 2021 |
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part One
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Dec 06, 2021 |
The Focus IS the Work
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Dec 01, 2021 |
Dealing with Inevitable But Unpredictable Events
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Nov 29, 2021 |
Think in Composition
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Nov 24, 2021 |
Substitute Better Questions
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Nov 23, 2021 |
Focusing On Fundamentals Is Not Repetition, It is Refinement
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Metamodeling and Steering Systems for Self Improvement
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Nov 16, 2021 |
When Pressure Turns To Poison
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Nov 11, 2021 |
Less Confidence, More Bravery
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Nov 08, 2021 |
Habits, Languages, Processes, and Other Behavior Engines
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Mindful Job Search: Myths and Psychology of Interviewing
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Oct 27, 2021 |
Mindful Job Search: Is it really time for me to quit my job?
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Can You Really Pick the Right Tool for Every Job?
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Oct 20, 2021 |
A Statistical Case for Iteration Over Perfect Preparation
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Oct 18, 2021 |
Avoid Unnecessary Prediction
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Oct 15, 2021 |
Give Random a Chance
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Oct 13, 2021 |
Two Illusions of Agreement
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Limit Your Options By Limiting Your Obligations
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Oct 04, 2021 |
Feature Exploitation
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Sep 29, 2021 |
How Averages Can Trick You and Obscure the Truth
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Sep 27, 2021 |
Dominik Zane, Founder of Around - Part Two
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Sep 22, 2021 |
Dominik Zane, Founder of Around - Part One
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Sep 20, 2021 |
Inner and Outer Layers of Context
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Sep 16, 2021 |
Finding the Good in the Negative - Ask, "what do I do about this?"
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Sep 13, 2021 |
Two Razors for More Efficient Decision-making
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Sep 09, 2021 |
Use Your Expectations As a Tool
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Sep 06, 2021 |
Flexibility is a Resource to Gather When You Least Need It
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Sep 02, 2021 |
Deconstructing Purpose
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Aug 30, 2021 |
Two Variations of Confirmation Bias
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Aug 25, 2021 |
How You Shape Your World With Macro and Micro Stories
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Always Keep Your Tank Full
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Aug 20, 2021 |
The Most Critical Career Mistake You Can Make
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Aug 18, 2021 |
Failure is an Opportunity for Responsibility
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Aug 16, 2021 |
Friday Refill: What Are Your Ideals?
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Aug 13, 2021 |
4 Questions To Understand Your Long Term Career Trajectory
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Aug 11, 2021 |
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO, Part Two
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Aug 09, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Give Tomorrow-You Advice from Today
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Aug 06, 2021 |
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO
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Aug 05, 2021 |
Uncomfortable Silence: What If You Do Nothing?
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Aug 03, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Imaginary Comparisons
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Jul 30, 2021 |
Implicit Hypotheses
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Jul 28, 2021 |
Model Manager - What We Don't Manage
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Jul 26, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Waiting and Replaying
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Jul 23, 2021 |
Reframing Discipline and Elastic Habits
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Jul 21, 2021 |
Model Manager: Human Behavior is the Primary Output of Engineering Processes
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Jul 19, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Focusing On Mastery Will Not Limit Your Options
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Jul 16, 2021 |
Compounding Time In Your Favor
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Jul 14, 2021 |
The Bowl of Mediocrity
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Jul 12, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Stay Mindful During Phases of Execution
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Jul 09, 2021 |
Step One Always Goes On Your Calendar
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Jul 08, 2021 |
The Tension Between Purpose and Mindfulness
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Jul 06, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Intuition Over Memorization
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Jul 02, 2021 |
Local and Global Rationality
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Jul 01, 2021 |
Skill-Building Is Not One Dimensional
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Jun 29, 2021 |
Balancing Entropy and Focus
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Jun 23, 2021 |
Decision-making Skills: Two Types of Probabilistic Thinking
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Jun 21, 2021 |
Using Cognitive Dissonance as a Tool
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Jun 16, 2021 |
Non-Linear Learning and Progress
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Jun 14, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Clarified Intentions and Flexible Goals
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Jun 11, 2021 |
Too Serious to Succeed
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Jun 09, 2021 |
Make Your Obstacles Irrelevant
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Jun 07, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Growth, Uncomfortability, and the Unknown
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Jun 04, 2021 |
Finding Resonance
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Jun 02, 2021 |
Reframe Your Plateaus
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May 31, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Your Baseline Determines Your Leverage
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May 28, 2021 |
Ethan Kross, Author of Chatter - Part Two
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May 26, 2021 |
Ethan Kross, Author of Chatter - Part One
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May 24, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Inviting Growth Into Your Regular Schedule
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May 21, 2021 |
Becoming Your Best Coach - Questioning Your Self
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May 19, 2021 |
Sources of Truth
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May 17, 2021 |
Friday Refill - One Thing at a Time
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May 14, 2021 |
Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part Two
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May 12, 2021 |
(Fixed Audio) Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part One
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May 10, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Seeking a Different Inside View
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May 07, 2021 |
Detaching to Seek an Outside View
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May 05, 2021 |
Conflating Uniqueness with Value
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May 03, 2021 |
Refill Friday - Best Practices and Asking When
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Apr 30, 2021 |
Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part Two
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Apr 29, 2021 |
Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part One
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Apr 27, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion (Fixed)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion
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Apr 23, 2021 |
The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part Two
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Apr 21, 2021 |
The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part One
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Apr 19, 2021 |
Introduce Intentional Asymmetry
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Apr 16, 2021 |
Narrative Complexity
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Apr 14, 2021 |
Changing Work Environments and Availability Bias
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Apr 12, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Making Limited Work Look Good on a Resumé
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Apr 09, 2021 |
Minding the Observer Effect as We Transition Together
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Apr 08, 2021 |
Find Your Values in the Dark
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Apr 06, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Seek Leverage and Access
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Apr 02, 2021 |
Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part Two
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Mar 31, 2021 |
Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part One
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Mar 29, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Stop Your Weekend Half-Thinking
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Mar 26, 2021 |
Ban the Heroics On Your Team
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Mar 24, 2021 |
Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition (Corrected)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition
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Mar 22, 2021 |
Friday Refill: How Patience Pays Off
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Mar 19, 2021 |
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part Two
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Mar 17, 2021 |
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part One
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Mar 16, 2021 |
Friday Refills - Stop Predicting Your Priorities
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Mar 12, 2021 |
Superpowered Imagination
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Mar 11, 2021 |
Biases of Attention
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Mar 08, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Divergent and Convergent Meetings
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Mar 05, 2021 |
Clean Up Your Goals
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Mar 04, 2021 |
Lego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven Problems
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Mar 01, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Anchor Behaviors
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Feb 26, 2021 |
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part Two
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Feb 24, 2021 |
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part One
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Feb 22, 2021 |
Friday Refills - Rest is Not an Optional Luxury
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Feb 19, 2021 |
Post-Pandemic Work and Life as an Engineer - Skills for a Different Future
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish
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Feb 15, 2021 |
Self Distancing
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Feb 12, 2021 |
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part Two
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One
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Feb 08, 2021 |
Friday Refills - Don't Cram the Information Firehose... Filter and Focus!
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Feb 05, 2021 |
Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer - Remote Everything?
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Feb 03, 2021 |
Series kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer
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Feb 01, 2021 |
Friday Refill: Consider an Alternate Story
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Jan 29, 2021 |
Paying the Tax for Our Decisions
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Jan 27, 2021 |
The Downside to Inaction
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Jan 25, 2021 |
Friday Refill - Ignore Motivation, Focus On Removing Obstacles
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Jan 22, 2021 |
The Bucket Model
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Jan 21, 2021 |
The Shape of Work
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Jan 18, 2021 |
Why We Believe Ourselves (Even When We're Proven Wrong)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
Designing Your Skill Portfolio
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Jan 11, 2021 |
Optionality Sweet Spot
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Jan 06, 2021 |
The Dangers of Measuring Side Effects
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Jan 04, 2021 |
If Actions Speak Louder Than Words, What Are Yours Saying?
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Dec 31, 2020 |
Imagining the End
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Dec 28, 2020 |
Making Things Invisible
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Dec 23, 2020 |
The Paradox of Transcendence
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Dec 21, 2020 |
Misusing Exceptions in Code and in Life
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Dec 16, 2020 |
Refactor Your Labeling Techniques
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Dec 14, 2020 |
Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 2)
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Dec 09, 2020 |
Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 1)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 2)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 1)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 2)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 1)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 2)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 1)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 2)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 1)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
Exactly How Different Are You From Average?
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Nov 06, 2020 |
Think About Invisible Things More Often
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Nov 04, 2020 |
Why It's Harder to Accept That You're Wrong if You Have More Experience
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Oct 28, 2020 |
Explicitly Choose What You Won't Do
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Oct 26, 2020 |
4 Ways Smart People Make Bad Decisions
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Oct 21, 2020 |
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 2)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 1)
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Oct 14, 2020 |
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 1)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 2)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
Self Confidence is Accepting Your Weakness
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Oct 05, 2020 |
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (part 2)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (Part 1)
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Sep 28, 2020 |
Interview w/ David Marquet
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Sep 25, 2020 |
Give Up Control, On Purpose
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Sep 21, 2020 |
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 2)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 1)
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Sep 14, 2020 |
Intention, Action and Result
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Sep 10, 2020 |
Complexity Is A Scarce Resource
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Sep 08, 2020 |
5 Stages Of Relationships With Mistakes
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Sep 02, 2020 |
How Zero Sum and False Dichotomy Thinking is Distorting Your Decisions
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Aug 31, 2020 |
Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 2)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 1)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
4 Things You Have to Leave Behind as a Beginning Engineer
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Aug 19, 2020 |
Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects
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Aug 17, 2020 |
The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner
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Aug 13, 2020 |
Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests
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Aug 10, 2020 |
The Critical Importance of Labels
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Aug 05, 2020 |
Using Your Brain Without Thinking
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Aug 04, 2020 |
Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
Interview w/ Aaron Upright
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Jul 28, 2020 |
Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible?
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Jul 22, 2020 |
Future Focused Feedback
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Jul 20, 2020 |
Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions
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Jul 17, 2020 |
Small Problems and Principled Engineering
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Jul 14, 2020 |
The Stories Your Code Tells
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Jul 08, 2020 |
Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies
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Jul 06, 2020 |
Your Present is Soon Your Past
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Jul 01, 2020 |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity
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Jun 29, 2020 |
Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher
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Jun 26, 2020 |
Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements
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Jun 25, 2020 |
Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career
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Jun 22, 2020 |
Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks
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Jun 20, 2020 |
What Will You Say When You Don't know?
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Jun 18, 2020 |
Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge
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Jun 15, 2020 |
Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers?
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Jun 12, 2020 |
How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions
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Jun 10, 2020 |
4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers
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Jun 08, 2020 |
What Does It Take To Change Your Mind?
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Jun 03, 2020 |
Play, Stakes, and Learning
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Jun 01, 2020 |
Leveraging Our Emotional Goals
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May 27, 2020 |
Mental Models for Finding Balance
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May 25, 2020 |
High Certainty, High Value Defaults
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May 22, 2020 |
3 Ways to Be a Better PR Author
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May 20, 2020 |
4 Ways to Be a Better PR Reviewer
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May 18, 2020 |
What is Code, to Our Evolved Mind?
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May 15, 2020 |
Correlation, Causation, Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
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May 13, 2020 |
Context-Dependent Decisions and Linear Heuristic Mental Models
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May 12, 2020 |
Productive Self-Sabotage
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May 08, 2020 |
Simple Prioritization Visualization
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May 06, 2020 |
There Is No, "Way We've Always Done It"
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May 04, 2020 |
When To Walk Away From (and come back to) A Problem
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May 01, 2020 |
Default Problem Solving Modes
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Apr 29, 2020 |
What Orders Have You Inherited?
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Apr 27, 2020 |
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 2)
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Apr 24, 2020 |
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 1)
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Apr 22, 2020 |
Protecting Uncertainty
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Apr 20, 2020 |
Learning Isn't A List of Items Your Can Check Off
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Apr 17, 2020 |
Consider Your Cues
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Apr 13, 2020 |
How Little We Really Know
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Apr 11, 2020 |
Improving Through Bad Ideas and Silly Questions
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Apr 08, 2020 |
Forcing Functions
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Apr 06, 2020 |
Growth, Uncomfortability, and Deliberate Practice
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Apr 03, 2020 |
Practical Steps for Reframing Problems
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Apr 01, 2020 |
Take Advantage of What You Already Have
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Mar 30, 2020 |
Stress and Tolerance
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Mar 27, 2020 |
Architecting Change - Interpolation
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Mar 25, 2020 |
When Do Long-Term Models and Habits Betray You?
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Mar 23, 2020 |
The Overreaction Paradox
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Mar 20, 2020 |
Hidden Environment Inputs - Mindful Remote Work
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Mar 18, 2020 |
Interview w/ Carl Yates Perry (Part 2)
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Mar 16, 2020 |
Interview w/ Carl Yates Perry - Part 1
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Mar 13, 2020 |
Flattening the Cost of Change Curve
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Mar 11, 2020 |
4 Reasons You Will Never Pick the "Right Tool For the Job"
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Mar 09, 2020 |
Four Questions for the Weekend
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Mar 07, 2020 |
Breaking Your Own Rules Accelerates Bad Habit Formation
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Mar 04, 2020 |
Redefine Your Career Search Rules
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Mar 02, 2020 |
Functional Autonomy and Finding Meaning in the Small Things Today
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Feb 28, 2020 |
Your Influence is Catalyzed By What is Influencing You
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Feb 26, 2020 |
Your Time is An Account With An Unknown Balance
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Feb 25, 2020 |
Don't Make the Problem Fit the Model
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Feb 21, 2020 |
Implicit Models and Processes
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Feb 19, 2020 |
Measuring Freedom to Change
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Feb 17, 2020 |
Embracing Confusion
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Feb 14, 2020 |
Thought Experiment - Rejecting Your Intuitive Solution
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Feb 12, 2020 |
You Don't Have to Be a Slave to Self-Improvement
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Feb 10, 2020 |
Getting Stacked Value From your Daily Activities
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Feb 07, 2020 |
Defining Your Reference Points
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Feb 05, 2020 |
Engineering Your Habits Like Interfaces
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Feb 03, 2020 |
Plans Should Be Functions, Not Documents
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Jan 31, 2020 |
What Are your Fundamentals?
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Jan 29, 2020 |
Getting On The Right Level When Solving Problems Collaboratively
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Jan 27, 2020 |
Management Anti-Pattern - Detail Abstraction
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Jan 24, 2020 |
Management Anti-Patterns - False Homogeneity
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Jan 22, 2020 |
Management Anti-Patterns - Implicit Assignment of Responsibility
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Jan 20, 2020 |
Two Biases that Can Affect Your Work and Relationships
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Jan 17, 2020 |
You'll Never Have All of the Information
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Jan 16, 2020 |
Productivity Isn't About How Much You Get done
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Jan 13, 2020 |
3 Guidelines for Happier Work with Designers
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Jan 10, 2020 |
Connecting Tasks to Operating Modes
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Jan 09, 2020 |
Success and Cumulative Advantage
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Jan 06, 2020 |
A Key Misconception About Resolutions
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Jan 03, 2020 |
Holiday Re-Air: Interview w/ Gabriel Weinberg (part 2)
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Dec 27, 2019 |
Holiday Re-Air: Interview w/ Gabriel Weinberg
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Dec 23, 2019 |
Simplifying
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Dec 20, 2019 |
What We Do With a Lack of Information
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Dec 18, 2019 |
Disagreeing Better, On Purpose
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Dec 16, 2019 |
Two More Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Three)
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Dec 13, 2019 |
Two Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Two)
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Dec 11, 2019 |
Better Feedback Loops (Part One) - Validation and Cycle Time
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Dec 09, 2019 |
Justifying Feature Work with User Roles and Motivations
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Dec 06, 2019 |
Hypocognition and the Importance of Concepts
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Dec 04, 2019 |
Colliding Titles and Roles
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Dec 02, 2019 |
Managing Requests, Making Commitments
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Nov 29, 2019 |
The Benefit of Our Predecessors
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Nov 27, 2019 |
The Illusion of Balancing Priorities
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Nov 25, 2019 |
Commit To Actions, Measure Outcomes
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Nov 22, 2019 |
Check Your Leverage
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Nov 20, 2019 |
Meetings Can Trick Your Emotions
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Nov 18, 2019 |
Preserving Subcultural Language
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Nov 16, 2019 |
Different Behaviors with the Same Values - Practicing Modes
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Nov 13, 2019 |
How Small Behaviors Cascade into Life-Changing Results
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Nov 11, 2019 |
Focusing On Improving One Value At A Time
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Nov 08, 2019 |
Tracing Chained Motivations
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Nov 06, 2019 |
Productivity In The Face of Ambiguity with Functional Assumptions
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Nov 04, 2019 |
Ask Better Questions
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Nov 01, 2019 |
Interview with Anil Dash (Part 2)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
Interview with Anil Dash (Part 1)
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Oct 28, 2019 |
Seeking a Disconnected Perspective
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Oct 25, 2019 |
Balancing Accountability and Empathy
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Oct 23, 2019 |
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Multiplying Value by Thinking in Systems
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Oct 21, 2019 |
Messages in Object Oriented Programming
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Oct 18, 2019 |
Be Present While Thinking on the Past and Future
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Oct 16, 2019 |
Leverage As A Career Heuristic
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Oct 14, 2019 |
Don't Use Transparency As a Weapon
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Oct 11, 2019 |
Steps to Become a Terrible Developer
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Oct 09, 2019 |
The Ocean of Choice Between Can and Will
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Oct 07, 2019 |
Priming Effects
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Oct 04, 2019 |
Dealing With Overwhelm
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Oct 03, 2019 |
Admitting When You Don't Know
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Sep 30, 2019 |
From Explicit to Implicit: When Our Mental Energy is Wasted
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Sep 28, 2019 |
Implicit to Explicit: Management Systems
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Sep 25, 2019 |
Implicit to Explicit: Perception and Emotions
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Sep 23, 2019 |
Moving Implicit Systems to Be More Explicit
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Sep 20, 2019 |
Progress by Habit, Perception by Exception
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Sep 18, 2019 |
Product Mindset w/ Jessica Hall (Part 2)
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Sep 16, 2019 |
Product Mindset w/ Jessica Hall (Part 1)
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Sep 13, 2019 |
How To Be A Bad Manager
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Sep 11, 2019 |
Imagining a Clearer Reality
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Sep 09, 2019 |
Digging Up Your Purpose
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Sep 06, 2019 |
The Nuances of Behavior and Research
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Sep 04, 2019 |
Advice I Would Have Rejected Ten Years Ago
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Sep 03, 2019 |
Your Purpose is Not a Point in the Future
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Aug 30, 2019 |
Listen To This In You're Feeling Stuck
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Aug 28, 2019 |
Improve Your Team by Rejecting These Bad Assumptions
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Aug 26, 2019 |
Using Pre-Mortems to Find the Opposition to Our Focus
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Aug 23, 2019 |
Taking Advantage of Your Time as a Student
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Aug 21, 2019 |
Beating Boredom in Your Career
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Aug 19, 2019 |
Short Term Decisions, Long Term Mindset
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Aug 16, 2019 |
Beating Dogma And Choosing The Right Tools
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Aug 14, 2019 |
Reaping Rewards by Expecting Success
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Aug 12, 2019 |
Going Beyond Simply Fixing Failures
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Aug 09, 2019 |
How to Engineer More Epiphany Moments in Your Day-to-Day
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Aug 05, 2019 |
3x3 - Misconceptions About Senior Engineers
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Aug 02, 2019 |
3x3 - Relating Better With Difficult Coworkers
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Jul 31, 2019 |
3x3 - Uncovering Hidden Information
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Jul 29, 2019 |
Belief Substitution
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Jul 26, 2019 |
Career Decisions and Penalty Kicks
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Jul 24, 2019 |
How to Affect Organizational Change
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Jul 22, 2019 |
Every Decision is an Opportunity Tradeoff
|
Jul 19, 2019 |
The Dangerous Characteristics of 10x Engineers
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Jul 17, 2019 |
You're Not So Important - Why Our Ego Drives Anxiety in the Workspace
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Jul 15, 2019 |
Finding Beginner's Luck Again
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Jul 12, 2019 |
Part 3: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
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Jul 10, 2019 |
Part 2: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
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Jul 08, 2019 |
Part 1: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
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Jul 05, 2019 |
What You Feed Will Grow
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Jul 03, 2019 |
Mid-Year Resolutions
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Jul 01, 2019 |
How Do I Choose a Starting Point for Best Practice?
|
Jun 30, 2019 |
Reversing Adversarial Dynamics in Interviews
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Jun 26, 2019 |
Accelerate Your Career with Pattern Matching
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Jun 24, 2019 |
Individual Contributor Career Growth w/ Matt Klein (part 2)
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Jun 21, 2019 |
Individual Contributor Career Growth w/ Matt Klein (part 1)
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Jun 19, 2019 |
The Connection Between Imagination, Confidence and Performance
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Jun 17, 2019 |
How Can Two Rational People Disagree?
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Jun 12, 2019 |
Test Driven Meetings - Measuring Outputs and Side Effects
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Jun 10, 2019 |
3 Assumptions That Can Hurt Your Job Search
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Jun 03, 2019 |
Mental Models w/ Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo (part 2)
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May 31, 2019 |
Mental Models w/ Gabriel Weinberg (part 1)
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May 29, 2019 |
Great Code is Marked by Flexibility
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May 27, 2019 |
Crafting Your Work By Your Strengths
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May 24, 2019 |
Make Your Problems Smaller
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May 22, 2019 |
Three Things I Wish I Learned Earlier in My Career As A Software Developer
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May 20, 2019 |
3 Red Flags that You're Heading for Burnout
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May 17, 2019 |
3 Principles for Your Job Search
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May 15, 2019 |
Mental Simulations - Information (A)Symmetry
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May 13, 2019 |
Mental Simulations - Persona Perspectives
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May 10, 2019 |
Metal Simulations - Artificial Constraints
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May 08, 2019 |
The Fear : Value Connection
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May 06, 2019 |
What Kind of Decisions Are You Optimizing For?
|
May 03, 2019 |
Contingencies and Planning for Failure
|
May 01, 2019 |
Three Career-Changing Perspective Shifts When Preparing to Start A New Job
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Apr 29, 2019 |
Uncovering Your Unconscious With Flagged Behaviors
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Apr 26, 2019 |
Meetings - Good, Bad, Or Just Complex?
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Apr 24, 2019 |
Modeling Decisions as Dynamic Functions
|
Apr 22, 2019 |
Thinking in Bets w/ Annie Duke (part 2)
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Apr 19, 2019 |
Thinking in Bets w/ Annie Duke (part 1)
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Apr 17, 2019 |
Uncovering Deeper Motivations and Goals
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Apr 15, 2019 |
Ambiguous Goals, Concrete Actions
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Apr 12, 2019 |
Focusing Career Progress
|
Apr 10, 2019 |
Fail Mode
|
Apr 08, 2019 |
Feedback Shouldn't Be Scary
|
Apr 03, 2019 |
Mental Accounting
|
Apr 01, 2019 |
Headroom
|
Mar 29, 2019 |
Seek to Understand Rather than Persuade Others Perspectives
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Mar 27, 2019 |
Bonus Episode - Soft Skills Engineering Meets Developer Tea
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Mar 26, 2019 |
Habits and Replacement Behaviors for Interrupting Triggers
|
Mar 22, 2019 |
Interview w/ Ali Spittel (part 2)
|
Mar 20, 2019 |
Interview w/ Ali Spittel (part 1)
|
Mar 18, 2019 |
Witness Protection Program
|
Mar 15, 2019 |
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Getting to Code Quickly and Model Thinking
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Mar 13, 2019 |
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Clarity, Brevity and Context
|
Mar 09, 2019 |
Interview w/ Bryan Helmig - CTO at Zapier (Part 2)
|
Mar 06, 2019 |
Interview w/ Bryan Helmig - CTO at Zapier (Part 1)
|
Mar 04, 2019 |
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Seeking Feedback
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Mar 01, 2019 |
Stress Response and Anger as a Secondary Emotion
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Feb 27, 2019 |
Problem Solving Intuitions - Additive, Subtractive and Reorganizational Thinking
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Feb 25, 2019 |
Starting Your Work Day with Autonomy
|
Feb 22, 2019 |
Making Decisions - Fighting Fear and Time Warping
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Feb 20, 2019 |
How We Construct Software, Part 4b: Code and Communication
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Feb 19, 2019 |
How We Construct Software, Part 4a: Code and Communication
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Feb 15, 2019 |
How We Construct Software - Part Three (Decision Variance)
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Feb 13, 2019 |
How We Construct Software - Part Two (Beliefs and Models)
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Feb 11, 2019 |
How We Construct Software - Part 1 (Substitute Questions)
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Feb 08, 2019 |
Beating Procrastination
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Feb 06, 2019 |
Poisoning Retrospectives With Hindsight Bias
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Feb 04, 2019 |
When Best Practices Backfire - The Peltzman Effect
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Jan 30, 2019 |
Replace Your Implicit Questions to Break Out of Incrementalism
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Jan 28, 2019 |
Self-Awareness and Intellectual Honesty
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Jan 25, 2019 |
Treating Your Brain as More Than a Machine
|
Jan 23, 2019 |
Improving Confidence and Neutralizing Threats Through Detached Perception
|
Jan 21, 2019 |
High-Churn Code Should Be Your Cleanest Code
|
Jan 18, 2019 |
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 2)
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Jan 16, 2019 |
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 1)
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Jan 14, 2019 |
Adding tests to a big untested codebase - Where do I start?
|
Jan 11, 2019 |
5 Tips for Improving Your Principles of Experimentation
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Jan 09, 2019 |
Visualize Your Goals in Details
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Jan 07, 2019 |
Expectations vs. Reality
|
Jan 04, 2019 |
Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (pt. 2)
|
Jan 02, 2019 |
Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (Part 1)
|
Dec 31, 2018 |
Interview w/ Michael Chan (pt. 2)
|
Dec 28, 2018 |
Interview w/ Michael Chan (pt. 1)
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Dec 27, 2018 |
Why Rules Apply Especially to Exceptions
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Dec 14, 2018 |
3 Practical Steps for Avoiding Narrative Biases
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Dec 12, 2018 |
Proof of Complexity and Seeking Simplicity
|
Dec 10, 2018 |
The Zen Developer - What Are You Pushing On?
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Dec 07, 2018 |
Bad Bugs - Avoiding Burnout When Solving Elusive Problems
|
Dec 05, 2018 |
Practical Tips for Minding the Details
|
Dec 03, 2018 |
Practicing Non-Attachment as a Developer
|
Nov 30, 2018 |
A Discussion On Falsehoods Developers Believe
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Nov 28, 2018 |
Three Overconfidence Smells
|
Nov 26, 2018 |
A Challenge Towards Gratitude
|
Nov 23, 2018 |
Observing Your Stress Responses
|
Nov 21, 2018 |
How Relative Comparisons Affect Our Decisions
|
Nov 19, 2018 |
Interview w/ Julian Shapiro (part 2)
|
Nov 16, 2018 |
Interview w/ Julian Shapiro (part 1)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
Inhibition, Fear, and Two Mindsets for Moving Forward in the Face of Uncertainty
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Nov 12, 2018 |